Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Step by Step

Author: In Online Training Solutions, Inc. Online Training Solutions List Price: $24.99 Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price ISBN: 0735615195 Publisher: Microsoft Press (30 July, 2003) Edition: Paperback Sales Rank: 5,521 Average Customer Rating: 3.33 out of 5

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If that description sounds like you, and you feel overwhelmed by the massive reference guides at your local bookstore, this is probably a good place to start, because it's quick, easy, and serves as a stepping stone to more in-depth training and reference guides.

The lessons in this book will take the average user about an hour a piece to work through, making the entire course (11 lessons covered in 288 pages) a breeze to finish. The book spends time explaining the various menu and pane choices, which helps the user understand why they're clicking all those checkboxes.

While the lessons do not go in-depth into the intricate features of FrontPage 2003, the most important (in other words, the most used) features are covered, and give the user a very quick and effective overview of the program's capabilities and intuitive features.

The book also takes some time here and there to give the user some basic web design pointers regarding what to avoid, how to most effectively present information, and other tips of the sort.

A problem that many first-time users (the core audience) will encounter with this book is the fact that in later chapters, it relies heavily on the user having access to servers with Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions/SharePoint Services installed. If the user does not (many basic homepage servers don't provide this), publishing and observing how certain key features work will not function correctly, and the user is left having to skim the chapter tutorials, trying to "learn by not doing". For the purposes of this book, Microsoft should have set up an adequate server that users could log on to and practice on.

Additionally, some of the general paragraph text in the book was somewhat hard on the eyes (not true for the tutorial steps themselves), and should have been printed in a slightly bolder font. Also, with the paper being so firm, it was hard to keep the book open to the right page without having to bend and damage the spine.

Overall, this is a very unintimidating and effective hands-on introduction to FrontPage 2003, featuring tutorials that are very easy to follow, with a good quick reference section for making your own webpage creations.

Advanced users, however, should steer clear.

This book gave me the knowledge needed to get the job done and look professional but if you are looking for advanced topics like ASP.NET intergration or other advanced topics you might want to take a look at the Inside Out series of books or the PowerPoint 2003 Bible.

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